Update: Quality Bus Mourns Driver Maria Teresa Disla, 54, Funeral Set for Saturday

MARCH 26 -- Drivers and Monitors at Quality Bus are mourning the untimely death of Driver Maria Teresa Disla, 54, who passed away on Saturday. She had been a Driver for Quality since 2016. Union Rep Hazel Carr said that Sister Disla apparently died from a brain aneurysm.

Sister Disla will be remembered at a Memorial Service on Saturday, March 30, 2024 from 3:00 PM to 8:00 PM at the Coppola Migliore Funeral Home at 49-01 104th Street in Corona, Queens.

Carr called her "hard working, very sweet, and dedicated to her job and her family." Maria Teresa leaves a husband, brother, and teen-aged daughter to mourn. Crystal Blas, the manager at Quality Bus/First Student, recalled that Maria Teresa was at first afraid to make the move from driving a van to a school bus. But then she said, "Maria Teresa coped with the fear, overcame, and conquered the big bus."

Her daughter wrote the following: "With a lot of regret, pain and sadness I am writing to tell you that we unexpectedly lost our companion, Maria Teresa Disla, who left next to Our Lord this Saturday, March 24. She left a great void among those of us who had the joy of knowing her. She was a being of light, radiated joy, tireless warrior, mother, daughter, wife, exemplary friend. We say goodbye with great reget. May the hope of the Resurrection be a balm in these sad moments."